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Have hash function, will travel ⬡ Posts about cryptology, netsec, infosec, OpenID Connect ⬡ co-founded bastionzero.com ⬡ Works on OpenPubkey: https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey ⬡ Website is https://ethanheilman.com
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🇫🇷🇺🇦 France will produce 1,200 AASM Hammer precision bombs in 2025 and send them all to Ukraine – Le Parisien. www.leparisien.fr/internationa...

Oh wow. Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state. Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.

I got opkssh working with PuTTY github.com/openpubkey/o...

Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.

Honestly this is just incredible content.

NEW: A Trump-appointed federal judge rejects Trump's invocation of 18th century Alien Enemies Act www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is laying off between 300 and 400 staff, including around 100 at Respawn, and canceling a Titanfall extraction shooter that was in early development, according to people familiar. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

"The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; but all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." - William Pitt (1763)

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

New from 404 Media: the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here. Scammers in Nigeria are using realtime deepfakes to change their race, facial hair, gender, more to appear as someone else on video calls. Results very realistic now. Also tricking verification systems www.404media.co/the-age-of-r...

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

People have no idea what's going to happen from the China tariffs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.

In the 16th century, pikemen would often cut off part of the shaft of their 21' pikes because they were a pain in the ass to carry around. Every military manual of the time says to stop them from doing this, because if you run into a unit of pikemen that didn't cut their pikes, you're fucked.

opkssh has a nixOS package! search.nixos.org/packages?cha...

lol. I guess if I ever become a landlord, I need to include a clause to prohibit tapping into equipment without prior consent :D blog.videah.net/attacking-my...

New Reuters poll finds Trump is no longer in positive territory *even on immigration*:

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

you're living through a technological revolution, but it has nothing to do with web 3.0, cryptocurrency, the metaverse or even AI. Solar+storage are taking over the energy grids everywhere on the entire planet and will make fossil fuels extinct.

The greatest writers of our generation are writing in the genre of short form github despair

I knew I made this for a reason

“Talking with the vice president helped the cardinal better understand the Book of Job,” said a Vatican spokesperson, who added that the Book of Job itself was not discussed.

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

These guys were embodying the Yankee spirit on another level.

special consideration awarded to oathbreaker thom tillis here, who sold out hegseth's former sister-in-law after promising her that her accusations would be heard and taken seriously

This is the act an authoritarian regime, not one interested in the rule of law.

I will tell you one thing: Having a bunch of center-right conservatives swing wildly to the left will make a genuine difference for active duty U.S. military leaders as they decide whether to use force against the American people, to stay neutral or to oppose fascists

"Mack Trucks announces layoffs at Lehigh Valley plant, blames tariffs" penncapital-star.com/briefs/mack-...

Retrospective: Five Years Blogging About Cryptography as a Gay Furry Online The history of this blog might very well be a cautionary tail (sic) about scope creep. AJ The Original Vision For Dhole Moments Originally, I just wanted a place to write about things too long for Twitter (back when I was…

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

New release of opkssh: Now supports: - AMD64 - Arch linux Thanks to everyone who contributed! github.com/openpubkey/o...

Years before we knew Musk was a Nazi, I saw Consumer Reports give the Tesla 3 a bad score for safety because of its braking distance, which they then changed because Tesla released an over the air software update so reduce the braking distance. That right there made me say I’d never buy one.

The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding

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